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In popular culture[edit]

In film[edit]

In the movie Days of Wine and Roses, alcoholic Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) takes Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick) out on a date. When she explains that she dislikes liquor but likes chocolate, he orders her a Brandy Alexander, starting her on her path to self-destruction.

In the James Gray movie Two Lovers, Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) tells Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) she drinks Brandy Alexanders with her boyfriend Ronald, a rich lawyer. Leonard orders one at a restaurant to impress her, but ruins the effect by mistaking the stirrer for a straw.

In Kurt Vonnegut's book, "Mother Night," the protagonist suspects that an overly flattering article written in the Herald Tribune about his neighbor, the painter, was written by "...a pansy full of brandy Alexanders."

In television[edit]

The character Raj Koothrappali (who needs to be intoxicated in order to talk to women) orders a Brandy Alexander at a bar in "The Hofstadter Isotope" episode of The Big Bang Theory, after he attempts to order a Grasshopper and a Chocolate Martini and is scorned by his friend Howard Wolowitz for ordering those.

In season one episode nine of Cheers, while Karla is in charge of the bar, she is asked to make a Brandy Alexander.

In season one episode eleven of Mad Men, Peggy Olson expresses disappointment with her Brandy Alexander while on a blind date, commenting that when Joan orders them for her they are usually sweeter.